I may be off on this a little, but from what I remember from way back, the path you use for the 'virtual' clause should be from the server root, not an absolute path on your filesystem. This doesn't explain why it would work in the server root but not in a subdirectory, but maybe I'm right anyway. Try one of these (it should be the first one if chat.cgi is in the server root as you say it is): 

# try this one first
<!--#include virtual="/chat.cgi"-->

# if that doesn't work, maybe this:
<!--#include virtual="/cgi/chat.cgi"-->

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In reply to Re: OT: Using global SSIs by saskaqueer
in thread OT: Using global SSIs by Anonymous Monk

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